Every now and then, I like to read some manga. However, for a foreigner like me, it's kind of difficult sometimes because each page has like 5 or 6 cubes or "panels" (not sure what the exact term is), and they're all over the place in terms of order of events, as opposed to here in the states where comic cubes tend to be left-to-right and top-to-bottom in a more linear, straightforward fashion. Can anyone here tell me why Japanese manga is written and drawn in such an odd way?